CrossOver Server Distro Recomendations

[Eric "Shubes"]

George wrote:
> Looking for a good Distro for a new Linux convert (Sys Admin with very 
> strong Windows server background) to host 100+ CrossOver Office clients.
> 
> I lean towards Debian which gives rise to the question as to which 
> flavor (Pure Debian, Ubuntu, XandROS  ... etc.).
> 
> Suggestions with supporting reasons please.
> 
> TIA, George
> 

When you say that the server is hosting COO clients, I presume you're not 
talking about thin clients ('dumb' workstations), but rather an SMB (samba) 
network.

 From an operational standpoint, I don't really think it really matters much 
at all which distro the server runs. From an admin standpoint, I would think 
you'd want to have the server and clients in the same 'family'.

If the convert desires to pay for commercial support, RHEL or SuSE are the 
main choices, but I'm guessing that's not the case.

I'm guessing too that stability and ease of maintenance is a high priority.

I'd recommend choosing the clients' distro first, and the server distro will 
pretty much choose itself.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

P.S. I'd probably end up choosing CentOS (RHEL with the name changed). It's 
very stable (no bleeding edge), and it's kickstart capability is well suited 
for rolling out large numbers of workstation clones. Admittedly, SuSE and 
Debian probably have this capability too, I just don't know.